From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811211259.30760.ptesarik@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081119165443.GB26749@csn.ul.ie>
Dne Wednesday 19 of November 2008 17:54:44 Mel Gorman napsal(a):
>[...]
> I was going to ask if it was easier to go OOM now, but even under very high
> stress, we should be making forward progress. It's just in smaller steps so
> I can't see it causing a problem.
Actually, I had to apply a very similar patch the other day to reduce the time
the system was unresponsive because of the OOM-killer, so I tested OOM
situations quite a lot, and it did not cause any problem.
Petr Tesarik
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 22:12 [PATCH -mm] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages Rik van Riel
2008-11-14 0:51 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-14 3:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-14 14:36 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-14 17:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-16 7:43 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-16 7:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-16 7:56 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-16 8:02 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-22 10:22 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-22 16:57 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-24 19:12 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-24 19:18 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-16 7:38 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-17 0:38 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-17 3:43 ` Balbir Singh
2008-11-19 16:54 ` Mel Gorman
2008-11-21 11:59 ` Petr Tesarik [this message]
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